Here are a few Oneida Lake fish stories from history. If you have a contemporary or historical fish story to share, send it to the OLA and we’ll be pleased to post it on this page.

Oswego Palladium-Times, August 20, 1936
Fish Tows Boat*

Utica - Charley
Zebley’s fish story of seeing a
boat pulled a mile and a half on
Oneida Lake was just another fish
story until the fisherman came
back with the proof. After being
dragged about the lake all afternoon
by his catch, he finally landed a 17-pound catfish!

George Hoyt, versatile correspondent-
of Central Square, told another
one. He writes that while fishing
through the ice of Oneida Lake, Adam
Klock. of Jewell, caught an albino eel
and a pike, and that the cause of the
unnatural color in the fish is through
their feeding on wheat in a barge
sunk in the lake two years ago. Now that’s
an interesting effect of diet on fish!

Little Falls. Julv 14.—Two happy
fishermen returned from Oneida Lake
last night in the persons of Mayor
Kingsbury of Little Fal ls and K. C.
Carp of this city, says today's Syracuse
Post-Standard. They had in
their possession ten pickerel and eight
pike.
Four of the pike weighed six-pounds
each and the Mayor forwarded
two of them to the biggest fish-story
tellers in the Little Falls Common
Council. He said that when he returns
home there is likely to be an
exodus of politicians from Little
Falls to Brewerton and South Bay as
a result of his fishing trip.